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Oracle Secure Global Desktop Installation Guide for Version 4.6

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Preface

1.  Installing SGD

2.  Upgrading SGD

3.  Getting Started With SGD

Logging In to SGD

How to Log In to SGD

Using the Webtop

Running Applications

Changing Your Settings

Logging Out

SGD Administration Tools

The Administration Console

Starting the Administration Console

Using the Administration Console

The tarantella Command

Creating Users

Creating User Profiles and SGD Administrators

How to Create a User Profile

How to Add an SGD Administrator

Adding Applications to Webtops

Creating and Assigning an Application Object

How to Create an Application Server Object

How to Create an Application Object

How to Assign an Application Object

Managing SGD

Arrays

Monitoring Users

User Sessions

Application Sessions

How to Shadow a User's Application Session

Controlling SGD

Controlling the SGD Enhancement Module

Controlling the SGD Enhancement Module for Microsoft Windows

Controlling the SGD Enhancement Module for UNIX and Linux Platforms

SGD Network Architecture

Client Devices

SGD Servers

Application Servers

Next Steps

What You Need to Tell Users

Where to Get More Help

4.  Removing SGD

SGD Network Architecture

SGD is built around a three-tier network architecture model, consisting of the following tiers:

Different tiers can reside on the same host. For example, a single UNIX platform host can act as both an SGD server and an application server, but the tiers remain logically independent.

Client Devices

The first tier contains client devices. A client device is a piece of hardware that can communicate with SGD using a browser and the SGD Client.

The browser communicates with the SGD web server on the second tier and displays the webtop to users.

The SGD Client communicates with SGD servers on the second tier and displays the applications that users run.

The Adaptive Internet Protocol (AIP) ensures optimal network usage between the first and second tiers.

SGD Servers

The second tier contains SGD servers, which act as a gateway between the first and third tiers. This tier might contain a single SGD server, or many SGD servers configured to form an array.

An SGD server is responsible for the following:

Application Servers

The third tier contains application servers that run users’ applications.

When a user clicks a link on their webtop, SGD starts the application on an appropriate application server. Output from the application is redirected by the SGD server from the application server to the client device.

When you tell SGD about an application, you include information about all the application servers that can run the application. SGD load balances between the application servers.